Improvement in linings for faucets



W. @LEVEL LINING FOR FA TS.

No. 193,111. n .Patented Ju1y17,1877.

OEEICE.

WILLIAM CLEvELAND, or ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN LININGS FOR FAUCETS'.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,11 l, dated July 17, 1877 application filed September 18, 1876.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CLEVELAND, of the city of Orange, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Linings for Faucets, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

My improvement relates to the linings or packings of the bowls of faucets which are provided with plugs or keys, inserted in said bowls, and by means of which the passage of fluids through the faucets is controlled; and my improvements -consist in a faucet-linin g so prepared as to prevent the said linings from swelling and shrinking, which hinders the key or plug from turning in the first case, and causes the faucet to leak in the latter case.

Great difficulty has been experienced by myself and other extensive faucet manufacturers in the use of leather as a lining on account of this swelling and shrinking, caused by the tendency of theleather to receive moistnie, and to part with it, by changes of temperature.

I have entirely obviated the above difculties, and have also produced a lining which is p at the same harder on the surface and smoother low, which, by the great heat, expels all the air contained in the leather and forces into the pores of the leather, in place thereof, the

hot tallow, the heat virtually destroying the life of the leather. After taking the leather from the tallow I scrape the surface of the same over a moderately-sharp edge and the surplus tallow is removed, and then the strip is ready to be made into the linings, which I substance which is greasy, although it has been subjected to a great degree of heat, the

key ofthe faucet turns easily and remains tight.

The drawings annexed represent one of my faucets, and the lining is marked c c in all the figures- Figure l being a vertical section through the axis of the faucet; Fig.2, a vertical crosssectiou through key; Fig. 3, a horizontal section through axis of the faucet.

I have already patented the method of attaching a lining to my faucet, as shown in the present drawings, so I will only refer to the lining o c as being of the kind referred to in this specification.

Having now fully described my -mprovement, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The faucet-lining described, prepared by saturatiug leather with tallow or other suitable grease at a temperature about the boiling-point of said tallow, substantially in the manner and for the purposes set forth.

WM. CLEVELAND.

Witnesses:

EDWARD D. PIERsoN, RICHARD DARNsTAED'I. 

